The runaway jury

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Label

The runaway jury

Statement of responsibility

John Grisham

Creator

• Grisham, John

Subject

• Biloxi (Miss.) -- Fiction
• Jury -- Fiction
• Trials (Products liability) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important, why?

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Literary form

fiction